Tragedy as man collapses, dies in Eastleigh lodging

A middle-aged man collapsed at a guest house he had checked into in Nairobi’s Eastleigh area.

The incident happened on Tuesday, November 26 at the Premier guest house at Second Avenue in Eastleigh.

The man collapsed at the doorstep and died.

 He had blood oozing from his mouth as he was picked to hospital where he was pronounced dead upon arrival by medics. His body was moved to the City mortuary awaiting post-mortem.

The cause of the death is yet to be known. Police said they are investigating the incident.

Elsewhere in Ogembo, Kisii County’s Kanyimbo Sub-Location a 14-year-old boy drowned in a quarry that was filled with water.

The boy with his friends had gone to play at the pool of water when he drowned on Tuesday, November 26.

Locals with the help of local divers and Kisii County Rescue Team, the body was retrieved and moved to the mortuary.

Meanwhile, police in Kirinyaga county are looking for a miraa driver who was involved in a road accident where he knocked and killed two children aged 12 and 7 years at Ngurubani, along –Mwea-Embu highway on Tuesday night.

According to Mwea-east sub-county police commander Mohammed Jarso, the accident happened when a speeding miraa vehicle that was heading towards Nairobi direction was overtaking another vehicle on spikes erected by the county government of Kirinyaga to collect cess hit two children riding on a motorbike.

Police said one boy died on the spot while the second died in hospital.
Residents said this is not the first accident along the Mwea-Embu highway as Miraa drivers move with impunity, killing pedestrians and boda boda riders along the busy highway.

The 12-year-old boy who was a pupil at Ngurubani Primary School died on the spot while the seven years old boy who was a pupil at Thiba Primary died at Mwea Mission Hospital where he was rushed.

The bodies are lying at a local mortuary as police investigate the incident.